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Interested to see? >> you know, its hard to say until we see a little bit more. i think when we see the filings that are coming up, you might be able to put pieces together and really, i think, what might be interesting to know is what communications there might have been between these three or how much what they were involved with intersects at various points in time. >> as a general notion, there are two schools of thought in this very divided country. one is i cant wait to read this mueller r...

Talks about the death and of flynns cooperation and talks about these within the context of ongg investigations. the special counsel says the blackout section, i have some of them here, about ongoing investigation and they dont want to, in effect, tip their hand to those who may be the subjects of the inquiries, because i dont think it is wise to speculate on what it relates to but they felt it was sensitive enough not to make it public. those who are sort of in the presidents corner on this poi...

Say, because of sensitive ongoing investigations. but what they do say in one section is that flynn has been so important to their investigations because, quote: the defendant began providing information to the government not long after the government first sought his cooperation. his early cooperation was particularly valuable because he was one of the few people with long-term and first-hand insight regarding events and issues under investigation by the special counsel. so the bottom line is t...

But what they do say in one section is that flynn has been so important to their investigations because, "the defendant began providing information to the government not long after the government first sought his cooperation. his early cooperation was particularly valuable because he was one of the few people with long-term and firsthand insight regarding events and issues under investigation by the special counsel."" so the bottom line is the special counsel is recommending the minimum, so no j...

>> the heavily redacted portions come in the second part of the filing which is this addendum which talks about the depth and breadth of mike flynns cooperation talks about sections in the context of ongoing investigations. special counsel says the blacked out sections, i have some of them here that it is about an ongoing investigation and they dont want to tip their hand to those who may be the subject of this inquiry so i dont think it is wise to speculate on what it relates to but it was sens...

Thats what they got him on. >> laura: taxi shield. >> when flynn pleaded to lying people said i guess theyre not going to use them as witnesses because theyve just pleaded to lying. this has just happened to michael cohen. mueller is not planning to -- >> laura: theyre not nothing but theyre process crimes. >> as witnesses in a future prosecution. >> laura: we dont know what mueller has. i keep saying this as an attorney. you dont know what the mueller team has. andrew weissmann is not at the mu...

It all at one time in one major indictment. so, i mean, i think what youre seeing is this is all being lined up for a major indictment. youve got three witnesses. youve got cohen who obviously takes us right into the sweet spot of the russian conspiracy. youve got rick gates, who was there straight through after manafort left in august of 2016. and then youve got michael flynn, who probably provides the motive as to whats going on with respect to -- >> the sanctions? >> a quid pro quo lifting of...

Seeing is this is all being lined up for a major indictment. youve got three witnesses. youve got cohen who obviously takes us right into the sweet spot of the russian conspiracy. youve got rick gates, who was there straight through after manafort left in august of 2016. and then youve got michael flynn, who probably provides the motive as to whats going on with respect to -- >> the sanctions? >> a quid pro quo lifting of sanctions for the help. >> right. judge, i also wanted to get your feedbac...

Statements to congress. its basically perjury. thats a substantive crime, not just a mere process crime. and as you were saying, jim, its a pr campaign here. the trump people want to spin that as oh, theres no real substantive crimes going on here. all these process crimes. but you know, when you look at this investigation, the amount of false statement convictions is just unbelievable. i mean, it permeates the entire situation here. and that says a lot about whats going on and also raises the q...

Everybody lying, right? and its -- you know, rudy giuliani is out with a tweet this morning saying, oh, thesis are process crimes. lindsey graham has said, these are process crimes. this is a talking point to minimize what has thus far been primarily false statements, crimes, that robert mueller has charged. but when you start to look at one, two, three, four, five, there are a lot of false statements being made to federal officials in violation of the law. and people dont lie for no reason. the...